Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERBecause computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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